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ROAD-VEHICLE.

QPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,960, dated February 2 1885.

Application filed April 15, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM JOHN BREWER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, in England, have invented a new and useful Improvement inRoad-Vehicles, (patented in Great Britain by Letters Patent No. 1,862 of 1883, dated April 12, 1883,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of the carrying or load-bearing and strain-distributing parts of road-vevicles generally; and it consists in certain novel combinations of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure l of these drawings is an end view of a cart illustrating the main features of this Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively an elevation and a vertical section of parts of the same. Fig. et is a side view showing a preferred axle-connection and other modifications, and Fig. 5 is a partial end view illustrating additional modifications.

Like letters of referenceindi cate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A represents a vertical slide at each side of the vehicle, and B an axle-spindle projecting O 0 represent flanged angle-braces closely embracing the lower angles of thebody of the vehicle and bolted thereto and forming dovetail or undercut vertical guides for said slides.

D represents an axle-connection in the form of a bent .bar of steel or iron uniting the slides A beneath the body, so as to keep the pair of wheels E E applied to the axlespindles B in proper working relation to each other by transmitting vertical motion from one slide to the other; and F represents a spiral spring above each slide for cushioning the load and steadying the movements of the slides up and down in their guides.

I prefer to construct each slide A with a recess, 0, in its top, to receive the lower end of aspiral spring, F, so applied, and to contain a supply of lubricant for the axle-spindle projecting from said slide, a duct (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3) extending obliquely downward from said recess to the surface of the spindle. The upper end of the spring may abut against the upper end of the angle (No model.) Patented in England Apr-i112, 1883, No.1,862.

brace, closed for this purpose, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or against abracketattached to the side of the vehicle-body, as shown in Fig. 4., a guide-rod working through the sprin and bracket in the latter case.

G, Fig. 3, represents a spiral spring common to a pair of spindle-slides applied there to through the medium of the axleconnection H, which in this case is in the form of a due strain on the body as a result of the isola tion of the axle-spindles, and they may also re-enforce the union with the body of rigidlyattached shafts or thills, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my said improvement in road-vehicles, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification- 1. The combinatiornwith the body ofa roadvehicle, of flanged anglebraces closely embracing the lower angles of the body, and forming vertical guides for slides from which the axle-spindles project and to which the spring or springs are applied, substantially as herein specified.

2. The combination, iiia'road-vehicle, of a body provided with flanged angle -'braces closely embracing the lower angles of the body and forming vertical guides for slides from which the axlespindles project and to which the spring or springs are applied, and a connection between said slides extending horizontally across below the body and outof contact therewith, substantially as herein specified.

8. The combination, in a road-vehicle, of a body provided with flanged angle braces closely embracing the lower angles of the body and forming vertical guides for slides from which the axle-spindles project, and a connection between said slides in the form of a chain working over rollers in said anglebraces and extending horizontally across below the body and out of contact therewith, spindle-with lubricant, substantially as heresubstantially as herein specified. in specified.

4. Ina r0ad-vehic1e,-; a vertical slide, A, Dated this 17th day of March, A. D. 1884 having a'stndspindle, Bfprojecting therefrom,

5 and constructed with a recess, 0, in its up- WILLIAM JOHN BREVVER' per part connected by a duct with the sur- Witnesses: face of thesaid spindle for retaining a spiral SAM P. WILDING, spring above said slide and supplying the R. A. HOFFMANN. 

